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Support JGI's Commitment to Studying and Protecting Wild Chimpanzees

The Jane Goodall Institute began as an organization that supported scientists conducting long-range, non-invasive research of wild chimpanzees. Over the decades JGI has grown, and so has our mission. In addition to researching wild chimpanzees, JGI is also committed to rescuing the most vulnerable victims of the illegal commercial bushmeat trade, orphaned chimpanzees and serving as a leader in community-centered conservation across chimpanzee range countries.

Recently, the JGI family lost two chimpanzees who were with us at the beginning of both of these efforts.

Freud was one of the very first chimpanzees observed by Jane Goodall when she arrived on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in what is now Tanzania. Like Freud, Clara was likely born in the wild. However, as a young chimpanzee she found herself in captivity at the Pointe Noire Zoo in the Republic of Congo.

Please honor Freud's memory, and show your support of the effort JGI’s Tchimpounga sanctuary makes to rescue chimpanzees like Clara by signing this petition.

Sign below to show your support for JGI's commitment to research and rescue of wild chimpanzees.

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As a supporter of the Jane Goodall Institute who cares deeply about the future of Africa’s great apes, I would like to add my name to the list of people who support the rescue of chimpanzees who have been taken from the wild by poachers and the continuing observational research that Jane Goodall initiated at Gombe Stream National Park.

I believe that chimpanzees deserve to live out their life in the forest, without the threat of being hunted or having their habitat destroyed. To this end, I support research like that carried out at JGI’s Gombe Stream Research Center in Tanzania, and understand that the knowledge gained from such research will help preserve wild chimpanzee populations and their forest home.

I also believe that chimpanzees who have been removed from the wild and from their families by poachers deserve a second chance at life. I support chimpanzee sanctuaries like JGI’s Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in the Republic of the Congo, a sanctuary that nurses orphaned chimpanzees back to health and provides them with the care they need to live a full and happy life amongst their own kind.

I support JGI’s innovative research and its lifesaving programs, and know that such initiatives are vital to securing a future for wild chimpanzees in Africa.